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Thank you. I'm Casey. I'm an alcoholic. I'd like to thank Janesta for inviting me, like

to thank everyone else for having me. It's an honor to be here. It's an honor to be anywhere

where people will actually listen to what I say. So I got the floor, I got the microphone,

and I'm here for 50 minutes. My sobriety date in the September 15, 2005. So that means

I've got it by 17 and a half years, and I fully understand the comprehend that I only

have today. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm giving something back today. I'm an

active participant in my own recovery, and I think that's why I've got 17 and a half

years. So I want to tell you a story. I was born in 1962 in a small town in West Virginia.

Towns called Mayberry. It's a very small town. The youngest of five children in my family

growing up, there was nothing to do in my town. We had three channels on our TV. One of

them was educational, so I didn't really count. So my backyard was a mountain, and I would play

on the mountain as a child, and I knew where all the springs were, I knew where the rabbit

homes were. It was a great, great childhood. Up to the age of about four, when I first experienced

sexual abuse at the hands of an older, much older male relative, and at the age of four,

it was a one-ton thing, and it didn't really seem to shake my world. It happened one more

time when I was seven, and that was the apocalypse. When it happened at the age of seven, it changed

everything for me. So I think at the age of seven, I remember I was between the first and second grade

here in the U.S., and I remember going into the second grade, and I was a terribly dysfunctional

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